The SparrowLawrence Arabia

Lawrence Arabia, a.k.a. New Zealand songwriter/producer James Milne, is a lounge lizard, swooping through sultry songs with only the slightest shake of his shoulders, the quiver of a lip – movements barely noted. Minimal, exotic, yet resting on traditional instruments like strings and a piano, Arabia's latest release, The Sparrow, is the soundtrack to a slumming Moulin Rouge, an old jazz singer's vacant stare, the unrepentant wandering of a trashed troubadour. It's all ro...

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